Vintage Valentine

I don't know about young people today,

but when I was a 'gel' Valentine's Day was anticipated

with an equal measure of dread and excitement.

If you didn't receive a card you had to pretend that the postman

hadn't delivered before you left for school.

You had to receive more than one card, because if there was only one

that dropped through the letter box - it was bound to be from your Mum.

In 1962 I received three cards

I was over the moon  - one was obviously from 'you know who'

I found out who one of the others was from because he told me

he had 'nicked' it from the paper shop especially for me.

But the third - well that remains a mystery - but it was

the biggest and best one I have ever had.

and I've kept them all these years - from 1962.

Who can beat that?

--oo0oo--

The best version of My Funny Valentine from

'The Talented Mr. Ripley'

The phrase 'wearing your heart on your sleeve' comes from

the Middle Ages when according to popular tradition

young men and women would draw chits from a bowl

to know the names of their Valentine

and would wear that name on their sleeve

for the entire week.

--oo0oo--



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  Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove
O No!  It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken
It is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown,
although his height be taken

Wm. Shakespeare

Je suis desja d'amour tanne
Ma tres doulce Valentinee

Duke of Orleans

He whom love touches

walks not in darkness

Plato

--oo0oo--

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The first Valentine message is thought to be a poem from Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife in 1415.  He was captured at the Battle of Agincourt and imprisoned in the Tower of London to await execution.

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Love is composed of a single soul
inhabiting two bodies
Plato

--oo0oo--
Happy Valentine's Day!